On Mon, 4 Mar 2002 09:53:16 -0800 (PST) Thomas Seay
<entheogens at yahoo.com> writes:
> Justin, maybe you know something about this, having
> studied under Kaufman. It's been a long time since
> I have read anything biographical on Nietzche but
> wasn't his sister the one that drew together the notes
> for "Will to Power" and didn't she and her
> proto-fascist husband have something to do with his
> later appropriation by the Nazis?
I am not Justin, but the answer is yes. His sister was married to an antisemitic ideologue (a man that Neitzsche himself had very much despised), and she deliberately edited his writings to make his views appear compatible with those of her husband's. Nietzsche died around 1900 but his sister lived on until the mid-1930s. In the 1920s, she was a stauch supporter of Mussolini, and in the 1930s of Hitler, and she attempted to show that her late brother's philosophy lent support to both fascism and National Socialism. When she died, Hitler gaver her a state funeral.
Jim F.
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